The organisers of the back-to-school seminar for National Rally (RN) deputies on 14 and 15 September in Paris have added a short module to the weekend programme: it concerns the use of their advance mandate fees (AFM). It will not be useless, given the revelations of Half part on the expenses of RN MP for Pas-de-Calais Christine Engrand and her responses.
According to the research site, the 69-year-old elected MP, who has been in office since June 2022, spent more than 10,000 euros of public money on personal expenses in two years. For the following reasons: expenses for the care of his two dogs, a monthly subscription to a dating site and funeral expenses. Expenses that he claims to have reimbursed to the National Assembly, after having been reported by a former member of his parliamentary team to the administrative services of the Bourbon Palace.
This former collaborator had also reported the events to representatives of the RN, writing Half partThis has not caused any protests, says Christine Engrand. The MP was also comfortably re-elected in the last legislative elections, on 30 June and 7 July.
“It is not profitable at all”
“I didn’t receive any training [sur les frais de mandat] In 2022, I admit that I should have read the book better,” She said to Half part. This is what the party will remind its MPs of: reading the code of ethics, which clearly states that it is forbidden to use this envelope for personal expenses. A sum of public money, 5,950 euros per month, which Christine Engrand also considers to be very insufficient: “The envelope they give us seems to me to be very, very short, it is not at all profitable.”
As for the care of her dogs, the MP also admits having sometimes asked her parliamentary colleagues to take them to her pension, but claims to have found the solution to this care problem: she will only come to the Assembly two days a week, in order to reconcile ethical standards, the care of her Labrador and her poodle, and her personal finances. Former sales director Christine Engrand regrets having “Loss of purchasing power” after his election and cannot find his way.
She did not respond to requests for World and his office issued a statement explaining: “The honourable member of parliament does not dispute these errors committed at the beginning of her mandate. (…) All declared expenses have already been reimbursed for several months. » A better structured communication than your initial response, described as “mole” by a fellow Lepénist deputy. “No comments”We prefer to say those surrounding Marine Le Pen.
